Holding strong at No. 6 among public universities in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges rankings, UC San Diego also earned four top-20 undergraduate program rankings and national recognition for supporting veterans.
Three chemistry professors - Seth Cohen, Joshua Figueroa and Akif Tezcan - all started their careers at UC San Diego. Twenty years on, they have – yes, we have to say it – a unique chemistry in and out of the lab.
Filmmaking is just 150 years old, and Alison O’Daniel sees the field as ripe for invention. As a visual artist and filmmaker, she explores accessibility, sound and listening across media. She recently joined UC San Diego as the inaugural Suraj Israni Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts.
For over three decades, King Britt has composed, produced and performed electronic music worldwide. Now a teaching professor in UC San Diego’s Department of Music, he brings this experience to students as the new MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair in Digital Media and Learning.
The University of California San Diego is launching an artificial intelligence major for undergraduates this fall — the result of more than a decade of growth in AI teaching and research here on campus.
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When UC San Diego bioengineering students step into their newly renovated instructional labs this fall, they’ll find themselves in cutting-edge spaces designed not just for hands-on learning, but with the specific needs of bioengineers in mind.
In their own words, five incoming undergraduates share their dreams for the future and how they plan to make an impact.
UC San Diego chemistry professor Joel Yuen-Zhou doesn’t fit neatly into a box and neither does his work. He was born and raised in Mexico City to Chinese immigrants. As a theoretical physical chemist, he uses physics, math and chemistry to manipulate the properties of photons.
“We’re essentially using AI to give doctors a predictive tool for a condition that develops in space, before astronauts even leave Earth.”
“Being a mother meant I needed a school where I could balance responsibility and ambition, and UC San Diego’s environment offers that. I want to show my daughter that the future is ours to claim, no matter how unlikely it may look at first.”
“All my life I’ve worked in health care, wanting to help to see what the outcomes will be, not just for me, but for research — for my grandkids — for humanity.”
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